Baruun-Urt
Baruun-Urt District
Баруун-Урт сум ᠪᠠᠷᠠᠭᠤᠨᠤᠷᠲᠤᠰᠤᠮᠤ | |
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 Sükhbaatar Square Statue in Baruun-Urt | |
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| Country | Mongolia |
| Province | Sükhbaatar Province |
| Elevation | 981 m (3,219 ft) |
| Population (2017) | |
• Total | 18,190 |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (UTC + 8) |
| Climate | BSk |
Baruun-Urt (Mongolian: Баруун-Урт; ᠪᠠᠷᠠᠭᠤᠨ ᠤᠷᠲᠤ, west-long) is a town in eastern Mongolia and the capital of Sükhbaatar Province. The town with its vicinities creates a sum (district) of Sükhbaatar Province. The Baruun-Urt sum area is 59 km², population 15,549, population density 265 per km² (2008). It forms an enclave within the surrounding Sükhbaatar sum.
Tömörtiin Ovoo Zinc Mine lies about 13 km north of the town.
Population
[edit]| 1959 est. |
1969 census |
1979 census |
1989 census |
1994 est. |
2000 census |
2006 est. |
2008 est. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6,000 | 8,000 | 11,600 | 16,100 | 17,289 | 15,133 | 12,000 | 12,944 |
Transportation
[edit]The Baruun-Urt Airport (UUN/ZMBU) has paved runway and cars There is a charter flight connecting the city to the capital when there are passengers. Usually MIAT, Mongolian Airlines doesn't fly to remote provinces especially to Sukhbaatar province but other two local airlines sometimes do. Recently some small airlines which has up to 8 seats started flying to suburban areas.
Climate
[edit]Baruun-Urt experiences a cold semi-arid climate (Köppen BSk) with long, very dry, frigid winters and short, very warm summers.
| Climate data for Baruun-Urt (1991-2020, extremes 1960-present) | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Record high °C (°F) | 0.6 (33.1) |
6.5 (43.7) |
22.0 (71.6) |
29.9 (85.8) |
36.4 (97.5) |
39.8 (103.6) |
42.2 (108.0) |
39.7 (103.5) |
33.2 (91.8) |
29.6 (85.3) |
15.6 (60.1) |
4.5 (40.1) |
42.2 (108.0) |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | −15.7 (3.7) |
−9.7 (14.5) |
1.0 (33.8) |
12.0 (53.6) |
20.2 (68.4) |
25.5 (77.9) |
27.7 (81.9) |
26.0 (78.8) |
19.7 (67.5) |
9.7 (49.5) |
−3.4 (25.9) |
−13.2 (8.2) |
8.3 (47.0) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | −21.0 (−5.8) |
−16.0 (3.2) |
−5.9 (21.4) |
4.6 (40.3) |
12.6 (54.7) |
18.7 (65.7) |
21.3 (70.3) |
19.3 (66.7) |
12.5 (54.5) |
2.7 (36.9) |
−9.4 (15.1) |
−18.3 (−0.9) |
1.8 (35.2) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | −25.5 (−13.9) |
−21.7 (−7.1) |
−12.1 (10.2) |
−2.4 (27.7) |
5.4 (41.7) |
12.4 (54.3) |
15.6 (60.1) |
13.1 (55.6) |
5.9 (42.6) |
−3.3 (26.1) |
−14.6 (5.7) |
−22.7 (−8.9) |
−4.2 (24.5) |
| Record low °C (°F) | −39.7 (−39.5) |
−38.0 (−36.4) |
−31.1 (−24.0) |
−18.9 (−2.0) |
−10.3 (13.5) |
0.0 (32.0) |
4.0 (39.2) |
0.0 (32.0) |
−7.2 (19.0) |
−23.0 (−9.4) |
−31.3 (−24.3) |
−36.4 (−33.5) |
−39.7 (−39.5) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 1 (0.0) |
2 (0.1) |
2 (0.1) |
4 (0.2) |
16 (0.6) |
39 (1.5) |
52 (2.0) |
42 (1.7) |
16 (0.6) |
3 (0.1) |
3 (0.1) |
2 (0.1) |
182 (7.1) |
| Average precipitation days (≥ 1.0 mm) | 1.2 | 1.4 | 1.4 | 1.7 | 4.2 | 5.9 | 8.3 | 6.3 | 3.8 | 2.0 | 2.1 | 2.3 | 40.6 |
| Average relative humidity (%) | 78.9 | 74.5 | 59.1 | 42.6 | 42.4 | 52.1 | 60.1 | 58.9 | 54.1 | 55.0 | 67.3 | 77.9 | 60.2 |
| Mean monthly sunshine hours | 203.3 | 216.4 | 263.5 | 274.6 | 304.5 | 303.0 | 298.9 | 290.4 | 280.0 | 245.2 | 208.2 | 183.2 | 3,071.2 |
| Mean daily sunshine hours | 6.6 | 7.7 | 8.5 | 9.2 | 9.8 | 10.1 | 9.6 | 9.4 | 9.3 | 7.9 | 6.9 | 5.9 | 8.4 |
| Source 1: Pogoda.ru.net [7] | |||||||||||||
| Source 2: NOAA (sun, 1961-1990),[8][9] Deutscher Wetterdienst (daily sun 1961-1990)[10] | |||||||||||||
References
[edit]- ^ National Statistical Office Archived 2007-06-07 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ National Economy of the Mongolian People's Republic (1921 - 1981), Ulaanbaatar 1981
- ^ GeoHive: Global Statistics Archived 2013-07-30 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Population Statistics: historical demography". Archived from the original on 2015-02-23. Retrieved 2007-10-24.
- ^ "Timeline: A Brief History of Mongolia" (PDF). www.reliefweb.int. Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 November 2005. Retrieved 13 January 2022.
- ^ Sukhbaatar Aimag Statistical Office 2008 Annual Report Archived 2011-07-22 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ КЛИМАТ БАРУУН-УРТА (in Russian). Pogoda.ru.net. Retrieved 4 January 2015.
- ^ "Baruun-Urt Climate Normals 1961-1990". National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Retrieved January 14, 2013.
- ^ "World Meteorological Organization Climate Normals for 1991–2020". World Meteorological Organization. Retrieved 2 August 2023.
- ^ "Klimatafel von Baruun-Urt (Barun-Urt) / Mongolei" (PDF). Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure. Retrieved September 17, 2016.
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